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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Kingdomseries finale.
After three seasons of fights inside and outside the cage, blood and brokenness in all aspects, Kingdom came to an end tonight with the death of one character and the near fatal isolation of another despite his victory.
"We could’ve kept…

12 Monkeys star Kirk Acevedo has signed on for a recurring role in Season 3 of Kingdom,Byron Balasco’s praised martial arts drama series. Production has begun for a spring premiere on AT&T Audience Network.
The series stars Frank Grillo as a former mixed martial arts fighter trying to keep his gym in business. Kiele…

Brand new Emmy player ATT’s Audience Network brought a unique family drama set in the world of Mixed Martial Arts , Kingdom, to Deadline’s first-ever Contenders Emmys all day event that took place in front of a packed DGA Theatre full of Television Academy and key guild members.
Creator and Showrunner Byron Balasco…

Byron Balasco, creator and showrunner of DirecTV’s upcoming original series Kingdom, has inked an overall deal with Endemol Studios, the production company behind the MMA drama, ahead of Kingdom‘s October 8 premiere. This marks the first writer-producer overall deal at Endemol North America's scripted studio…

DirecTV kicked off TCA‘s Saturday sessions with a look at its upcoming mixed martial arts drama Kingdom, which is premiering on October 8 at 9 PM ET/PT.Most of TCA’s sked today is devoted to the programming from non-traditional networks, i.e. DirecTV’s Audience Network, Amazon, Reelz and Hulu. While most of the Kingd…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of ABC’s first major development commitments for next season, the network has bought a soapy drama from McG, producer of Fox’s The O.C., which helped usher in the current resurgence of the primetime soap genre. ABC, home of some of the most popular nighttime soaps on TV, including Grey’s Anatomy and…